Posted on 02/17/2023 3:36:22 AM PST by C19fan
BBC and FX have released the first full trailer for Steven Knight's forthcoming adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
Olivia Colman, 49, leads a star-studded cast in the eerie and twisted two-minute teaser as she transforms into jilted once-bride-to-be Miss Havisham.
Dunkirk actor Fionn Whitehead, 25, plays orphan Pip in the new production opposite Line Of Duty actress Shalom Brune-Franklin, 28, as his love interest Estella.
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I made an error and the traler shows a BIPOC Mr. Wemmick.
Dickens spinning in his grave.
I can’t imagine that people who are triggered by seeing non white actors will be too interested in watching Dickens.
I recall having to watch a film version in the early 70’s in Jr. High. The loftier aspects of literature were completely lost on me. Neither the book nor the film was of any interest. 50 years later I am giving serious thought to reading the book. Have The Portable Kipling in my lunch bag, but so far it’s just for show. Slow and careful reader. Careless writer.
They’re not triggered, they just know bullshit when they see it.
i figured they wokerized it with a slew of historically inaccurate characters ... probably otherwise unwatchable too, as generally those who produce this garbage figure that wokerization is sufficient unto itself as “entertainment”, and all other factors such as character development, story, dialog and faithfulness to the source material are unnecessary and irrelevant ...
i’ve gotten where i won’t watch anything unless it was made at least a decade ago ...
I’ve tried watching these wildly out of place actors but my brain simply rejects the idea outright. You DO NOT get used to seeing someone who simply, historically doesn’t even remotely belong there
It doesn’t work. After all, if they made a film about a 19th century novel about a tribe in some part of Africa and some characters who members of the tribe were white, you’d spend the whole film wondering how they got there and the significance of their presence.
Some thing with having black actors play what were obviously white characters in a white society: you’d wonder how they got there, why they were there, and what it meant.
If the entire play or film is done with an all-black cast, simply because, say, it’s being performed in a place with no white residents or actors, that obviously is not a problem. Suspension of belief is the whole thing with dramas.
But the dramatization of a novel set in an exclusively European environment where the presence of other races or non-Europeans would have had a reason and required an explanation cannot casually throw in those characters without raising distracting questions in the mind of the spectator.
Think of an entire black cast of characters in a film like “Pride & Prejudice”. It simply will not work.
How many African families were living in the age of Victoria England, looking to meet up with noble suiters? None! The premise is ridiculous but that won’t stop the Hollywood Woke crowd from producing such bilge (An African American lesbian James Bond, riiiiight).
Next they’ll be doing Casablanca in blackface.
I cut the cable years ago and purchase DVDs of shows that I've heard were worth the time. The selection shrinks each year.
Casablanca is in Africa.
“...required an explanation cannot casually throw in those characters without raising distracting questions in the mind of the spectator.”
Absolutely. The distraction is overwhelming and completely prevents the suspension of disbelief.
FX involvement means it will be dark and violent. BBC involvement mean bizarre, woke diversity casting.
TV, in general, has become unwatchable.
Seriously...are people even watching this garbage?
It has less to do with the color of an actor in a movie that causes this angst among people than it has with the process of injecting race or sex roles into movies where the component didn’t exist in the original, and doing so for woke reasons.
Think making James Bond a black man or homosexual, or Ghostbusters all women.
I am sure there are people who are triggered by seeing “people of color” or women in movies, but those people are pretty rare.
Most people don’t get “triggered” by seeing Denzel Washington in a movie about an airline pilot, but they do get “triggered” seeing a play about Alexander Hamilton that features historically white persons as black persons.
Well, c'mon... It does take place in Africa.
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